Authorities on Saturday searched a storage unit in Seagoville as they continue to investigate the slayings of Kaufman County District Attorney Mike McLelland, his wife and a top prosecutor. (MICHAEL AINSWORTH / Staff PHotographer)
UPDATED POST: According to special contributor Jana J. Pruet who is reporting from the scene, about 25 Texas Rangers and FBI agents have converged on at least three storage units. Authorities are searching the units and a car has been found inside one of the units.
Authorities have also strategically parked vehicles around the units and put up a tarp in an apparent attempt to conceal the contents of the units.
ORIGINAL POST, 6:26 p.m.: Authorities are now searching a storage unit in Seagoville as they continue to investigate the slayings of Kaufman County District Attorney Mike McLelland, his wife and a top prosecutor.
The search is connected to other searches authorities conducted Friday at the home of a former justice of the peace.
Eric Williams, a JP in Kaufman County before he was convicted of stealing county equipment last year, was arrested on a terroristic threat charge early Saturday after the search of his home. He has not yet been named as a suspect in the murders.
His attorney could not be reached for comment but has said Williams is innocent.
Williams, 46, previously told The Dallas Morning News that investigators have been coming to his house on a regular basis to question him in connection with the shooting deaths of Assistant District Attorney Mark Hasse and McLelland, who prosecuted him last year after two county computer monitors that had not been issued to him where found in his office, and a third was found in his pickup.
?I don?t know what they think they are going to find,? Williams said Thursday after a Texas Ranger and a Kaufman County sheriff?s deputy left his home.
Williams submitted to gunpowder residue tests after the slayings. They were negative, his attorney said. Williams told The News on Thursday that he also had voluntarily turned over old cellphones for authorities to examine.
Williams has said investigators had taken other items from his home, including a computer.
The search warrant executed at the Williams home is believed to have lead to the execution of other search warrants, including the one at the Gibson Self Storage unit on Seagoville Road near Highway 175.
Richard Mohundro, one of Williams? neighbors, said Saturday that it was well after midnight when investigators finished the house search. They backed up a truck and hauled out plastic bins of documents and other things.
?They cleaned that house out,? he said. ?They were coming out of the front door and around back, too.?
Williams received probation in the theft case, but he lost his job, law license and health insurance. Bothe he and his wife have chronic illnesses.
McLelland and his wife, Cynthia, were found dead in their home over Easter weekend. Hasse was gunned down Jan. 31 as he walked to the county courthouse.
Staff writers Jennifer Enmily and Ed Timms contributed to this report.
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